Katy Tanner, a director at Robert Half in the UK, said, “International Women’s Day provides a platform to highlight the importance for rewarding all employees fairly on the basis of their contribution to the organization, rather than their gender or indeed any other point of difference.”
The firm highlighted recent research by the World Economic Forum that predicted full gender on a global basis would not come about until 2133, but warned the latest statistics suggest it could take even longer. The average salary for a man working full-time was £29,934 last year, but for women it was £24,202, a shortfall of £5,732, according to the data. The research also showed that annual earnings for women grew 1.4 per cent between 2014 and 2015, compared with 1.6 per cent for men.
“Given men have on average higher salaries to begin with, the absolute difference is becoming still further,” Robert Half said.
While Robert Half's findings point to an annual gender pay gap of 24 per cent, the ONS’ findings are based on states the gap is 9.4 per cent. In its Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings published in November, the ONS said, “The gender pay gap for full-time employees decreased to 9.4 per cent, from 9.6 per cent in 2014. This is the lowest since the survey began in 1997, although the gap has changed relatively little over the last four years. A similar trend is seen when full-time and part-time employees are combined, although the gap is unchanged from 2014, at 19.2 per cent. The ONS bases its calculations on hourly earnings, while Robert Half used average annual earnings to reach its results.
A government spokesman said, “This government has gone further than ever before dealing with the gender pay gap. Only last month we required companies with more than 250 employees publish their gender pay gap. We are making progress with business towards the end of the gender pay gap.”
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